Pin-tag-fastening tool



Of't. 27, 1925. .Y 1,559,428

W. C. AENNINGSEN PIN TAG FAsTEr-IING TOOL FiledA May 6, 1925 31m/vento@ @5MM/k atto: new

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tirrao s'rATEs WILLIAM C. I-IENNINGSEN, OF HUBBIIJETON, WISCONSIN.

PIN-TAG-FASTENING TOOL.

Application filed May 6, 1925.

To aZZ whom t may` concern.'

Be it known that WILLIAM C. HENNING- SEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Hubbleton, in the county of Jefferson and State of l/Visconsin, has invented new and useful lmprovements in Pin-Tag-Fastening rl`ools, of which the following is a specification.

ln department stores and similar `places it is customary to fasten on garments, dress goods and various articles to be sold, price pin tags or tickets. These usually carry U-shaped pins which fasten the tags in place. rfhe pins to be used are usually U-shaped and the practice in many places is `to fasten the tags or price cards with these pins, the prongs of the pins being passed through the material manually.

1t is a purpose of the present invention to avoid manual manipulation to fasten such price pin tags or tickets on the material to be sold, therefore it is another aim to provide a guide plate with a pin prong separating member mounted on the plate which engages between and separates the prongs vafter being driven through the material to which the tag is to be attached.

Still another purpose is to provide means consisting of a clamping spring to hold the pin tag to one of the jaws of the tool, so that when the arms of the pin pass through the material to which the tag is to be fastened, the jaws of the tool may be brought together, so that a prong separating member may be depressed and cause the prongs of the pin to spread open, thereby securely fastening the tag to the garment.

It is to be understood that the particulars herein given are in no way limitative and that, while still keeping within the scope of the invention, any desired modifications of detail and desired proportions may be made in the apparatus according to the circumstances. f

vThe invention comprises further features and combinations of' parts to be hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

ln the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the improved tool constructed in accordance with the invention, showing in dotted lines the material to which the tag is to be connected, the jaws being open with a pin tag carried by one of the jaws.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on line 2-2 .two jaws of the tool are separated.

Serial N'o. 28,432.

ofFigure 1, with the prongs of the pin in the act of passing through the tag and the material'towhich the tag is to be connected, the prongs of the pin being partly bent.

Figure 3 is a detail View of the guide plate.

Figure 4 is a detail view of the prong spreading member.

Referring to the drawings, 1 and 2 designate a pair of intersecting handle members pivoted at 3, a spring 4 being mounted on the` pivot with the ends of the spring engaging in the hollows of the handles of the two members for holding the handles normally separated. The handle members at their ends opposite their handles terminatev in jaws 5' and 6. Fastened to the jaw 5 by means of a bolt 7 is a plate 8 and a spring blade 9 which at its free end has a tongue 10. A tag with a fastening pin 11 engages this tongue, the transverse portion of the pin being between the tongue and the jaw 5.

The jaw 6 has an extension 12 which is fastened to the under face of a guide plate 13. This plate acts as a guide due to its longitudinal edges having overturned portions 14 which act as guides for a pin prong separating member 15. The pin prong separating member 15 consists of two plates 1G hinged together, as at 17. The ends of the plates 1G opposite their hinged ends have rolls 1S with rods mounted therein. The rods 19 are extended beyond the rolls, as shown, and engage in the guides for the purpose of guiding the two plates of the pin prong separating member, when depressed.

The walls of the guides, that is, their overturned portions, are cut, as at 20, and the portions 21 between the cuts are bent toward the bottom of the guide plate to act as abutments for the ends of the hinged plates of the pin prong separating member to limit the closing of the plates when thi spring 22 has one end coiled around the lpivot of the handle members and one arm of the spring is engaged under the hinged ends of the two plates of the pin prong separating member in its normal position. The other arm of the spring 22 engages one of the handle members in order to tension the arm which engages the pin prong separating member.

In the operation, the tool is held in the right hand of the operator and the material and tag are placed between the two jaws,

the tag being on either side of the material to which-the tag isi to be fastened. The tag is engaged with the tongue which is-` part or' the spring,` carried by the end ot the jaw tho two prongs of the pin thereof beine' positioned to pass through the material. The handle members are then pressed together7 bringing` the two jaws togethmC oreing the prongs of the pin through the material. As lthe terminals of the two prongs strike against the two plates of the prong separating; member and iipon Yturthe movement of the jaws, the plates separating meml er flatten out, et ine' tue two prongs of the pin to spread, and Lupen iinal movement of' the two jaws 'the two prongs of the pin are flattened, whereby the tag may be fastened seeurely to 1; ie naterial. Y

Papers, such as letters and the like, may be likewise fastened together and securely held.

The invention having;` been set forth, what is claimed is:

l. In a pin tag fastening tool, the coinbination with a pair of tensioned pivoted handle members having jaws7 of guides ried by one of the jaws and a pin prongv separat-ing element comprising' a pair of spreading plates mounted in said- (anios.5 and means Carried by the other aw for holdingv a pin tag with its prongs opposed to the plates of said element, whereby as the plates Hatten, the prongs separate and elineh on one face of' the material to which fastened. l i

2. ln a pin tag fastening tool, apair of hai-:idle members having' opposing jaws, one of which being provided with an extension,

L guides mounted on the extenthe tag is pair of i lawsy one or handle n'iem bei., which being' Broil. i an lneusion, a plate with idee on the extension, pin prong separating element comprising. spreadingV plates mounted in said guides, Yhe separating` element being spr f ioned, the other jaw being provided with eans for holding a pin tage', whereby upon 1e eenling* together, the prone pin eai ied by the t gi' penetrate rial to whieh it may be fastened so 1' iat wl en lates spread the prongs arel spread and fl the guides of the firstplate having' o limit the plates ot the element movemen' toward each other. 

